Embedded DevOps Engineer

Quantum Computing Jobs UK; Kidlington; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Job summary

Infleqtion is expanding its embedded DevOps capabilities in the UK, combining software, firmware, and gateware development to accelerate quantum system delivery. The role is hybrid, based at the Kidlington, Oxford office with occasional travel to the National Quantum Computing Centre, Harwell, and work-from-home is allowed up to two days a week.

The successful candidate will deploy and maintain containerised software, manage CI/CD pipelines, implement IaC, and ensure security in production

Qualifications

• Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for software, firmware and gateware.
• Hands-on experience with hardware-in-the-loop testing and lab infrastructure.
• In-depth knowledge of infrastructure-as-code and deployment automation.
• Strong collaboration between software and hardware teams.
• Security practices for secure code development and deployment.

Responsibilities

• Software Deployment: Manage containers and CI/CD pipelines for deployments.
• Hardware-in-the-loop configuration: Support both software and hardware teams in lab setups.
• Infrastructure as code: Design and maintain IaC solutions to automate deployments.
• Software security: Define and own security procedures for code deployment.
• System reliability: Plan and implement backup and recovery strategies.
• Documentation: Record configurations and processes for ongoing projects.

Skills

CI/CD pipelines

Container orchestration

Hardware-in-the-loop

Security in deployment

Systems engineering

Software development

Tools

Terraform

Git

CI/CD tools

Job description

Job Type Permanent | Work Location Hybrid

Infleqtion is a global quantum technology company solving the world's most challenging problems. The company harnesses quantum mechanics to build and integrate quantum computers, sensors, and networks. From fundamental physics to leading edge commercial products, Infleqtion enables "quantum everywhere" through our ecosystem of devices and platforms.

Location

Infleqtion has offices in the USA, United Kingdom and Australia. This is a full-time position split between our Kidlington, Oxford office and the National Quantum Computing Centre, Harwell. Work from home permitted up to 2 days per week based on business needs and manager approval. Candidate will need to be able to travel independently to these locations, as required.

Position Summary

As part of our strategy for growth at Infleqtion UK, we are expanding our engineering team and recruiting an Embedded DevOps engineer. For this role, you will bring a mix of technical skills, problem-solving ability and effective communication, playing a pivotal role in development velocity and reliability for our quantum research, sensor development and productionisation of cutting-edge systems. This role involves a combination of development and maintenance of robust testing and deployment processes including hardware-in-the-loop testing and build pipelines for integrated software, firmware and gateware. The role will be instrumental in defining our version control, auditing and engineering procedures around delivering production software for deployed systems. Additionally, the role will involve some maintenance of physical on-site hardware, network management, server administration to support our in-house research labs. The successful candidate will ideally possess a solid technical background in both systems engineering and software development.

Job Responsibilities

• Software Deployment: Manage containers and orchestrate CI/CD pipelines for efficient software deployment, robust testing and traceable updates.
• Hardware-in-the-loop configuration: Support both the hardware and software teams by managing configurations of multiple networked systems being used for development, testing & commissioning.
• Infrastructure as code: Design, develop, and maintain IaC solutions and implement CI/CD pipelines to automate deployment processes.
• Software security: Define and own software security procedures that govern secure code development and deployment for software, firmware and gateware.
• 'System-down' planning and response. Own lab system management and coordinate response to efficiently maintain high up-times. Plan and implement system backup policies to ensure swift recovery.
• Collaboration and Documentation: Collaborate with both software developers and hardware engineers in a lab environment, documenting processes and system configurations for ongoing projects.